The Koch Brothers are Behind Effort to Kill Light Rail in Phoenix
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A group presenting themselves as neighborhood residents and business owners is receiving funding from Koch-backed groups. We have receipts.
September Metro Committee Updates: Bike-Share, Bike Parking, Green Line, Open Streets, and Line Naming
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This month's LA Metro board committee meetings discussed and decided several items of interest to Streetsblog readers.
Transit Week Kickoff Marred by Broken Trains
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But A.B. 1184 was signed by the governor, bringing some good news to start the celebrations
E-Scooter Deaths Show Urgent Need for Safer Streets
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The early experience with e-scooters seem to show they put riders in a riskier position than bike share.
Today’s Headlines
|- Dueling campaigns: Gas tax opponents (LA Times)
- …vs Prop 6 opponents (LA Times)
- Gas tax repeal effort and political mileage (Bloomberg)
- “Modernization” of Clipper card—Bay Area’s all-in-one transit card—falls short (Curbed)
- Improving bus stops can increase ridership (Route Fifty)
- It’s not the scooters, it’s the badly designed streets (Greater Greater Washington)
- San Jose to introduce bond referendum for affordable housing (NextCity)
- Meanwhile, voters in Switzerland approve addition of “promoting bicycle infrastructure” to country’s constitution (SwissInfo)
- Official-looking signs in Norway encourage silly walks (Good News Network)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
UN General Assembly Is an Argument for a Car-Free NYC
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In New York City, key traffic decisions are made by the police department. That must end, too.
In Questionable Move, Affordable Housing Developer Awards Leasing Applications to First 400 Callers
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Leasing applications are generally treated with more care than concert tickets that go to the first ten callers that happen to be listening in. Not this time.
Return of the Scooter
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A visit to Skip's warehouse, one of the two companies that will be back in S.F., Oct. 15
Key Design Guide to Finally Include Protected Bike Lanes
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Protected bike lanes. Protected intersections. They're all included in the draft version of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' new engineering manual.
Today’s Headlines
|- LA just had its longest streak of bad-air days in decades (LA Times)
- No, BART, the seats are really too high (Systemic Failure)
- The cycling gap among U.S. cities (Wired)
- It’s hard to overstate how destructive Prop 6 would be for California, says LA Times
- Santa Barbara County Association of Governments opposes Prop 6 (Noozhawk)
- San Jose poll sees strong local support for Google transit village (Mercury News)
- Some Business Improvement Districts invest in criminalizing homelessness (NextCity)
- In January, 220,000 EV cars will lose carpool lane privileges (Planetizen)
- Forbes Magazine finds reasons to object to California’s clean energy goals
- Why affordable housing is so expensive (CityLab)
- California coastal cities should prepare for ten feet of sea level rise (Scientific American)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Metro Receives Key Federal Approval for Westside Purple Line Extension Section 3
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The federal government finally OK-ed L.A. Metro to proceed with construction of the $1.3B Westside Purple Line extension section 3.